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QuotesEssay Topic: Education (8)“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” NelsonMandela“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” MahatmaGandhi“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learnt in school.”Einstein“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought withoutaccepting it.” AristotleEducation that does not mould the character is absolutely worthless. – MahatmaGandhiTo educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to the society– Theodore Roosevelt Density of a nation is shaped in its classrooms”- Kothari Commission 1966-68 WomenMahbub-ul Haq, 'Development?if?not engendered?is?endangered'.? “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate ageneration.” ― Brigham YoungThere is no chance for the welfare of the world unless condition of women is improved. It is not possible for bird to fly on only one wing.- VivekanandHow important for us to recognize our heroes and she-roes”- Maya AngelouEssay Topic: Science and Religion“Science without Religion is lame and Religion without Science is blind” Einstein“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles andmisguided men.” - Martin Luther KingSarva dharma sama bhava (all religions lead to the same goal), which translates to an equal respect for all religions“I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.” — Sting, famous MusicianTechnology doesn’t change who we are, it magnifies who we are, the good and the bad- Tim Cook Essay Topic: Democracy (5) “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” Abraham LincolnDemocracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people- Lincoln ”I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as thestrong.” Mahatma Gandhi Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.” -Thomas Jefferson“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”- Plato“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a truedemocratic spirit.”FreedomWhere the head is held high And mind is without fearWhere knowledge is free.Where the world has not been broken into fragments.Where the mind led forward by thee into ever widening thought and ActionInto that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country Awake! Rabindranath Tagore I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to sayit. – Voltaire“Violent means will give violent freedom.”- GandhiJustice Brandis words quoted by HR Khanna in ADM Jabalpur case- “ Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the govt. purposes are beneficient…. The greatest danger to liberty lies in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but lacking due deference for rule of law”Essay Topic: Materialism/Consumerism/Environment (5)The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth“The world has enough for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed.”Mahatma GandhiWe do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell- Edward Abbey!!Essay Topic: Peace/JusticeThe greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”- Gandhi“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”- Martin LutherThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”― Martin Luther King Jr.We can never make peace with outer world unless we make peace with ourselves.- Buddha!!World peace begins with inner peace- Dalai LamaEssay Topic: Poverty/ Hunger “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” Mahatma Gandhi“There are people in the world, so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except inthe form of bread.”- GandhiPoverty anywhere threat to prosperity everywhere. Kofi Annan, 7th Secy general UNEssay Topic: CorruptionNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, givehim power.- Abrahm Lincoln“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything”- Albert EinsteinQuotes by Mahatma Gandhi (10)“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.”“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonesty.”“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”The weak can never forgive. It’s an attribute of strong- Gandhi “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.”“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”The mind is everything. What you think you become. (Buddha)“I…invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime, and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen” (Gandhi: NCM trial 1922)“There is higher courts than courts of justice and that is conscience.”Others/MiscellaneousHere in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine monument of India, representing India's urges, India's future in the making….symbolical of the changes that are coming to India” Nehru, IIT Kharagpur InaugurationIf you can’t feed a hundred people- feed just one- Mother Teresa “If you are offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”- Sheryl Sandberg"The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work."- Dalai LamaGeneral/Philosophical- ending the essay!And draw them all along, and flowTo join the brimming river For men may come and men may goBut I go on forever Brook by Alfred TennysonThis is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankindNeil Armstrong “Dream is not what you see in sleep, [it] is the thing which doesn’t let you sleep” APJ Abdual KalamIf you can dream it, you can do it- Walt Disney Arise, Awake and stop not until the goal is achieved) – Swami VivekanandaIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity- Albert EinsteinHope is a good thing, may be the best of things and No good this ever dies- Andy- Shawshank redemption(Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya) From darkness to lightVasudhaiva Kutumbakam (Whole world is one family)Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina (May all be Happy)Sarve Santu Niramaya (May all be without disease)Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu (May all have well-being)Maa Kaschit Dukh Bhagh Bhavet (May none have misery of any sort)Adbul Kalam has said.Where there is righteousness in the heart there is beauty in character, Where there is beauty in character there is harmony in home Where there is harmony in home there is order in nation Where there is order in nation there is peace in world.“The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall” – Nelson MandelaNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret MeadWinston Churchill said, “ Never let a good crisis go to waste.” There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." Denis WaitleyLincoln said, you can fool some of the people all the time and fool all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time,” ................
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